Arab scholars took these ideas and honed them even further, developing what is now known as geometrical optics -- applying geometrical methods to the optics of lenses, mirrors and prisms. The most famous practitioner of geometrical optics was Ibn al-Haytham, who lived in present-day Iraq between...
It’s worth pointing out that even at the first step there are a lot of possible “next words” to choose from (at temperature 0.8), though their probabilities fall off quite quickly (and, yes, the straight line on this log-log plot corresponds to an n–1 “power-law” decay that...
What are the application of sensor? What methods have successfully been used to detect exoplanets? How does the auditory system encode pitch and frequency? 1. What is the different about cone photoreceptors, that enable them to detect different colored light ? 2. What colors can these cone ...
According to the Australia Telescope National Facility, there are four types of binary star systems categorized by the methods used to detect them. Visual binaries A visual binary is a binary star system in which the stars can be individually seen as separate bodies in a telescope from Earth...
Methods like this still can't be used for terrestrial planets, as the height of the atmosphere engulfing a rocky planet is miniscule compared to that of a gas giant. Earth-like planets also orbit their stars at a larger distance, making it even more difficult to observe their atmospheres. ...
But it’s increasingly clear that having high-precision numbers doesn’t matter; 8 bits or less might be enough even with current methods. With computational systems like cellular automata that basically operate in parallel on many individual bits it’s never been clear how to do this kind of...